China has 4.25 times the population of the US and sold only 2 times as many plug-ins. So per capita the US sold over twice as many plug-ins.

It’s just that China sells less cars per person so on paper plug-in sales make up a larger percent of overall sales in China vs. the US because less people own cars.

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7 months ago

Rick Rowling

If people can get around without using cars, that’s even better. The goal should be reducing emissions, not simply buying cars.

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7 months ago

Tom

Ummm….no comment.

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7 months ago

philip d

I’m only responding to the headline with a factual observation. It claims plugin market share is 2x in China what it is in US.

This is true. But it fails to qualify what this means in the scheme of things.

For example. Would you get a complete picture of a product market comparison if you said that country A had 100x the market share in their country of a certain product compared to country B without disclosing that country A’s market size was 1/1000th of that of country B?

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7 months ago

Hauer

You miss the point: Chinese Leadership is looking into the future while US leadership decided to look for progress in their asses.

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7 months ago

philip d

I’m not making any point. I’m not saying that the US is better than China. Just pointing out that 2x the market share of a smaller market per capita means something.

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7 months ago

Gasbag

….and California’s plug-in market share is more than double China’s.

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7 months ago

Hauer

I am sure you will find a region on CHina that beats California, so what?

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7 months ago

Prsnep

So it was that Americans have a hard time accepting that China is the real deal and a threat to American supremacy.

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7 months ago

a-kindred-soul

The Chinese look forward and are creating a real market and a new car industry. The US is looking backwards.

Do you still remember the times when there were no Japanese cars in the US? Well, have a good and conscious look around you today, because these will be the last days you don’t see Chinese cars on US roads.

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7 months ago

dr.midas

Well, those market shares are only related to the crowded population of China. Actually more or less, also related to people’s approach to owning an electric car idea. Americans still have the DNAs of ‘bigger is better’ mentality, coming from old days, and more cylinders with more power are still preferably comparing to an electric engine. On the other hand, Chinese people are looking for a cheaper means of transportation. Here it says, https://huglero.com/tesla-uc-yil-icinde-25-000-dolarlik-elektrikli-otomobil-uretebilir/ that one of the leading American electric car makers Tesla is planning to produce the cheapest electric car soon, for just $25.000. Obviously those innovations will suppress the conventional engined cars, sooner or later, and electric cars will earn the place they deserve in the industry.